Sun Jian is now a little worried. Since he returned to Changsha County, Sun Jian has been lying on firewood and tasting gall, and wants to develop his head. One day he will no longer be able to ride on his head and show off his power. One day, he will be punished for the humiliation of a crushing defeat at Hulao Pass.

However, ambition is good, but things may not necessarily develop according to their expectations. First of all, Changsha is a relatively barren and wild area. It not only has a small population, but more importantly, it is full of land where people move around. Although Sun Jian is not afraid of mountain and even wants to recover mountain and mountain, he lacks the talents for governance.

After mobilizing his hometown in Wujun, Sun Jian's brother Sun Qiang and younger brother Sun Jing came to help. Later, his wife and brother Wu Jing would also come to help, but in addition, Sun Jian never received support from the Jiangdong clan again.

Now there are Lu Kang in the north of the Jiangdong gentry, Zangmin in the middle, Xu Gong and Wang Lang in the east, so there are many choices for the Jiangdong gentry. Relatively speaking, Changsha is basically not the territory of the Jiangdong gentry, and it is relatively barren. Instead of investing its power in Changsha, it is better to work hard on the existing territory. In fact, even Wujun is still harassed by Shanyue from time to time. Therefore, the Jiangdong gentry is not enthusiastic about the enthusiastic invitation from Sun Jian.

Sun Jian also understood this fact, but he could not change it. Sun Jian himself was a member of the Jiangdong clan, so he naturally knew what was going on with the aristocratic clan and how they thought about the problem. It was because of understanding these that Sun Jian knew that it would be difficult for him to change all this if he just relied on his lips.

However, if you don’t rely on your mouth, you will likely become the public enemy of the Jiangdong clan. Sun Jian was still very hesitant about this kind of thing. Sun Jian was naturally clear about the situation in Jiangdong. To some extent, the Jiangdong clan even had stronger control than the old clans in the Central Plains, because only in this way can you gain a foothold in Jiangdong, which is raiding across mountains and can continue to strive for more living space and wealth with force.

If Sun Jian wanted to strongly unify the Jiangdong clan, it would be an extremely arduous war, or even a long war. Therefore, Sun Jian could only temporarily endure it.

However, the situation changes extremely quickly and are not subject to personal will.

Cao Cao went south, and Huainan changed the sky almost instantly. Although Sun Jian had a brief cooperative relationship with Cao Cao, Sun Jian knew even more. Cao Cao was a guy with great ambition. If Cao Cao's ambition was elsewhere, Sun Jian might be watching, but now that Cao Cao was by his side, Sun Jian's heart was as heavy as a huge rock.

Originally, Sun Jian wanted to compete with Liu Bei, Cai Mao, Zhang Mancheng and Yiren, but now there is another Cao Cao. Sun Jian looked around and found that he was definitely a very tragic person. He was surrounded by a large group of powerful men, especially Liu Bei and Cao Cao. Sun Jian was very afraid of these two people.

Under this situation, Sun Jian deeply felt the pressure and crisis on himself. In the face of this danger that he might be completely destroyed at any time, Sun Jian began to reconsider the issue of unifying the Jiangdong clan.

These Jiangdong clans each have their own ideas. They may not know how dangerous Cao Cao and Liu Bei are, or they may not pay attention to how dangerous the strange people who developed silently in Jingnan are, but Sun Jian understood all this. Therefore, Sun Jian felt that doing this was actually for the benefit of the entire Jiangdong clan.

Or, before making the worst plan, you should lobby for a little more effort.

But before Sun Jian started to act, things changed again. A group of strangers came to the door. These strangers were all strangers from Geyang County and Runan County across the river. The purpose of this stranger visiting was to formally surrender to Sun Jian.

"Lord, there is something strange about this matter." Han Dang's opinion was simple and direct. In fact, to telling this strangeness from Han Dang's mouth basically means objection.

Cheng Pu waved his hand and said, "What's wrong? As long as we keep an eye on these strange people, they can still make money. Moreover, the conditions they proposed are so good that they will not only migrate a large number of people to join Changsha, but also bring a lot of food, grass and weapons. They even give up the power to form an army. Without the military power of the **, what can they endanger us?"

"I don't know, but I just think that this kind of thing that seems to have only benefits but no harm is simply unreasonable."

Han Dang was just a general, a calm general. He was not a strategist and did not have the ability to see through conspiracies. Therefore, he just intuitively felt that this was not good. As for why he felt it was not good, he couldn't say it.

Sun Jian frowned, and he was also worried. Sun Jian was very smart. He could indeed see many problems from this matter, but the benefits brought by this matter were too great, so Sun Jian was very hesitant.

When Sun Jing saw his second brother's distressed look, he smiled and said, "Second brother, this matter looks strange, like a huge bait, but whether we can catch us in the end depends on our response. I remember that when fishing, there are often cases where the bait is eaten but the fish is not caught. Who stipulates that if you eat the bait, you will definitely take the hook?"

Sun Jian was stunned and then understood Sun Jing's thoughts. Sun Jing meant to see what conspiracies there would be in the future. Then he would just deal with them. Could it be that he would be afraid of Yi Ren?

Sun Jian thought this way, but it made sense.

"What my third brother said is very good. Although this matter is strange, the benefits it brings to us cannot be ignored. If this benefit is rejected, will these people turn to others, such as Cao Cao, Liu Bei, etc. If Liu Bei and Cao Cao accept the effectiveness of these strange people, their strength will be greatly improved. In comparison, the gap between us and them will be more obvious. The pattern of one strong and one weak must not be long. Instead of waiting until then, it is better to accept this challenge now and see if we can take this opportunity to soar into the sky!"

Sun Jian's expression was very solemn, but he was also very confident. He had never retreated in the face of the powerful enemy Sun Jian around him, and now he would not be scared away by a group of strangers.

Everyone was inspired by Sun Jian, and his hesitation gradually disappeared, and more of the fighting spirit gradually became burning.

"In addition, the purpose of this group of strangers to our effectiveness, perhaps as they said, is to shift the focus of development from the struggle for governance to the pursuit of more practical benefits. Therefore, the power of urban property leasing, the power of land priority purchase, the right to operate and navigation of properties, etc., are also very reasonable. The only thing that makes us criticized is whether they will gradually control us from a commercial perspective, which requires us to do more work and prepare for the negotiations in advance."

"The second brother's words hit the nail on the head. Even if they are really rumored to have a foreign background, they actually have nothing to do with us. In fact, Jingnan's Yiren has always been in a relatively opposite relationship with us. Since this is the case, we can even use this group of Yiren to deal with Jingnan's Yiren."

Sun Jing's words made the generals present nodded one after another. This is indeed feasible. The way of restraining Yiren with Yiren has long been a consensus among the indigenous people. Sun Jing's plan is not a difficult problem to achieve. As long as these Yiren are given priority to the south during the negotiations.

Sun Jian's eyes lit up even more and looked at Sun Jing with appreciation: "I think this matter is feasible, and there are also issues regarding commercial constraints. We also need to consider it carefully. However, in principle, we can accept the effectiveness of these strange people."

Sun Jian's summary and settlement gave the final conclusion to this matter. What remains is how to win more benefits in negotiations with Yi Ren and greater restrictions on the possible conspiracy that Yi Ren could have.

Sun Jian knew the importance of this matter. All negotiations were conducted under extremely secret circumstances, but when the negotiations officially began, the representative of Yi Ren suddenly made changes.

Based on the extremely attractive conditions at the beginning, Yi Ren began to reduce the price he paid and began to make more demands, especially in terms of commercial privileges. The reason why Yi Ren dared to do this is that Sun Jian was not the only choice for Yi Ren. It is obvious that another prince might have begun to contact these groups of Yi Ren.

Sun Jian did not understand how great a harm was for commercial privilege. He just thought that Yiren was to get more benefits. In fact, once privileges exist, normal business would be hit hard. The ultimate goal of all commercial privileges is to destroy the normal business structure, form an absolute monopoly, and control the regional economy through business, and ultimately gain political discourse power through regional economy control, or even direct political decision-making.

During the negotiation process, Yi Ren intentionally or unintentionally revealed some progress in negotiations with another mysterious prince, and put pressure on Sun Jian through this method. Sun Jian was not sure whether this group of Yi Ren was really negotiating with other princes at the same time. Sun Jian could only hold on and insisted on some bottom lines anyway, including the location of the garrison, the maximum organization of the army, the restrictions on navigation rights, and the restrictions on commercial franchise, etc. Sun Jian was not unaware of the serious consequences of the breakdown of the negotiations, but what Sun Jian cared more was that he could not eat a terrible hook because of this.
Chapter completed!